22 Clovis G. Chappell Quotes

"We get in the grip of doubt and straightway we turn from the fellowship of those who know the Lord to the fellowship of those who confessedly do not know Him."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Doubt, Fellowship

"It is better to make a thousand failures than to be too cowardly to ever undertake anything."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Failure, Fear

"We will never bring in the Kingdom by simply seeking to save an adult generation. We must give God a chance at the children or the cause of righteousness is going to be defeated. But if we will save the child, we will surely save the world."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Children

"If you reject God's best for you, then He tries to get you to realize His second best. If you reject this, then He seeks to bring you to the next best. But remember this; God cannot, in the very nature of things, make as much out of a fraction of a life as He can out of the whole of a life."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Rebellion

"It is a sad day for any congregation when those who compose it can be counted on to be there at the social function, there at the place of business, but cannot be counted on when the interests of the Kingdom are at stake and when the Son of God goes forth to war."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Apathy

"Whenever you make up your mind to refuse to go where God wants you to go and to do what God wants you to do, you must make up your mind at the same time to renounce the friendship of God. You cannot walk with Him and at the same time be in rebellion against Him. God has no possible way of entering into fellowship with the soul that is disobedient to His will. Believe me, it is absolutely useless, it is mere mockery, to say "Lord, Lord" and then refuse to do the things that He commands you to do."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Backsliding

"It is a very human trait in us to feel that another's advancement is in some way a blow to ourselves. It is equally a human trait to feel that another's downfall and disgrace in some way adds a bit of luster to our own crowns. Of course, nothing could be more utterly false."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Envy

"As the saints of God meet together Jesus still manifests Himself. And seeing Him, there comes to us a new joy and peace, a new sense of the purpose and worthfulness of life. Seeing Him there comes to us a new power for battle and for conquest."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Joy, Peace, Power

"Whatever failure you and I make of our lives, we do not make because God forces us to do so. In whatever way we go wrong, we do not do so because God planned that we should. We do it because of our own willfulness and wicked rebellion against God."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Failure

"We cannot all go to the foreign field. We must express our interest in those who have not had our opportunities by our gifts. Much of the service we render in our own land must be rendered in the same way. But when that is said, the fact still remains that there is nothing that will take the place of our hand-to-hand dealing with those who need us. We cannot perform all our charities by proxy. We must come in personal contact with those whom we would help."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Missions, Charity

"How glorious that, when we resist God's purpose and all but wreck ourselves, He will make us again. Truly we would be a hopeless race but for the fact that we have a mighty God who is able to remake us even when we have rebelled against Him and have thwarted His blessed plans for us."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Mercy

"However far you have gone from God and however stiff may be the tempest that blows about you, if you get this promise under your feet all the storms that hell can let loose against a human soul will leave you unshaken. But you must keep a firm stand on the promise."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Backsliding

"What we need is faith. For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing. Real faith dares something, something big and brawny, beyond the human. Hence it brings into life the thrill of finest romance."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Faith

"A religion that does not permeate and purify and uplift and sanctify business and business relations is not the religion of Jesus Christ."

- Clovis G. Chappell

Topics: Business

"There are many today who have separated themselves from the services of the church, from the fellowship of the saints, because of a deadening indifference. They have become absorbed in a thousand other matters till they have become doubly uninterested in the things of the church and in the affairs of the Kingdom."